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New Kiss Me, Killer lineup hit’s The Plough Inn, Easton

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Finally! The new Kiss Me, Killer lineup stormed the stage at The Plough Inn, Easton after a long hiatus. If you haven’t followed us on Facebook, Cat, previously our backing singer and rhythm guitarist, has taken over lead vocal duties. And brilliant she sounds too.

The Plough gig was put on by promoters Bristol Skum Collective – a new outfit but one that enjoys the involvement of punk scene stalwarts – in support of homelessness charity, Crisis.

New look Kiss Me, Killer at The Plough Inn, Easton

KMK’s new and reworked songs went down a treat, with Gentrification and Megabus seeming to go down well, and we felt very tight as a unit. As well as the lineup changes we played around with style and sounds, David giving the Gordon Smith a rest for a bit and sporting a tremolo-equipped Strat to add a new dimension and Nat now choosing to use his classic Rickenbacker bass, with really helped his propulsive baselines jump out. Cat gave an assured performance and the overall feedback was great, with some really liking the new sound and lineup.

Two piece punk rock outfit 51st State and Bristol music legend Rita Lynch played storming sets. The night raised £220 for the homeless.

Not a bad return to he gigging scene then!

LadiesNight at Bristol’s Red Lion Pub raises over £400 for women’s charities

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Kiss Me, killer played their first hometown gig for the year and it was for a couple of great causes.

The ‘LADIES NIGHT’ event presented ‘female-led lineups of badass punk/rave/cheese sounds’ to raise money for charities helping women. The event raised over £408 with proceeds going o Unseen Uk and One25. Unseen UK are based in Bristol and work directly with the survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking. One25 is a compassionate and non-judgemental service to women trapped in or vulnerable to street sex-work, supporting them to break free and build new lives away from violence, poverty and addiction.

Cheri Clouds was on hand with her camera. Check out the images:

Other bands o the bill were the mighty punk-rock-ska outfit Dive, who have returned to the scene after a 15-year hiatus and FFTP a well known local duo who provide anarchic folk.Pumped by the bands people stayed to dance the night away to a top lineup of local DJs.

KMK were on song with a moshing crowd matching other great gigs we’ve played at BS5’s iconic live music pub, with newish song Tear your Heart Out reaching Bristol ears for the first time.

Back at the Chelsea Inn with Jenn Hart and Ash Judd

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The Chelsea Inn has become a real home from home for Kiss Me, Killer and 9 June saw the band play their third gig at the iconic punk pub, with a radically new set.

KMK were supposed to be supporting Plymouth female-fronted outfit, Husbands N Knives, at the Fishlock Promotions gig but sadly a thumping great migraine put paid to that so Bristol’s favorite new band were bumped up to headliners. Our extended 45 minute set included every song that band have ever written and our one cover song.

Before we played we were treated performance punk poetry from Jenn Hart and some furious banjo-driven acoustic punk from Ash Judd.

Nat with the merch
Nat with the merch…

Last time the Chelsea crowd saw us open with Narcissistic Tendencies, a stripped down, retro rock’n’roll tune but this time we decided to hit them with newest song, Snakes, a face-melting composition of such blistering, brutality and with it’s pounding phrygian and chromatic riffs it’s truly terrifying.

‘I thought you were going to launch into Slayer,’ said Oli, audience member and bassist from legendary Bristol doom metallers, Warrior Pope, who kindly lent us one of his Barefaced bass cabs for the evening.

Next up came Holly’s feminist Anthem Radical Notions, an earlier song we’ve recently revamped, then the sludgy riffage of Rat Race and the swirling garage psych of Snooker, which we managed to play at a sensible tempo (it can sometimes get fast!).

To extend the set Narcisstic Tendencies, the first song we ever wrote, made a comeback before Cat assumed lead vocal duties on her song, Och Aye!, which is becoming a real audience favourite. The other big new tune making only its second appearance was the eponymous Kiss Me, Killer, which is starting to sound punchy as hell live too.

Ina of Life in a Trash Can Photography was on hand again to capture the gig, and Cheri also took some great shots. Short of any last-minute gigs there’s a bit of a break now while we get to work on our debut EP!

See us at Fishlock Promotions’ Punk half dayer

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Kiss Me, Killer will be playing Fishlock Promotions’s punk rock Easter Monday (17 April) half-dayer the The Chelsea Inn, Easton, Bristol. We love the Chelsea and it saw us perform for the first time in public back in February.

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Kiss me, Killer’s last outing at The Chelsea Inn (photo credit: Meg Manley Photography)

rock gig flyerTopping the bill will be Scottish pop punkers The Murderburgers following a stellar lineup including:

BILLY LIAR Acoustic punk from Scotland

THE PISDICABLES Ska punk from London

NOSEBLEED Garage punk from Leeds

LOST AVENUE Punk from Northern Ireland

TRAGICAL HISTORY TOUR Acoustic punk from Scotland

KISS ME, KILLER  Riot grrrl garage punk from Bristol

INVINCIBLE PIGS Folk punk from Bristol

Bands will be on from 4pm – 11pm. It’s pay what you want entry with £5 suggested donation.

You can find The Chelsea here:

The Chelsea Inn
Easton, Bristol
BS5 6AU

For any updates, check out the Facebook page.

Catch Kiss Me Killer at The Red Lion 9 April

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Kiss me killer will be hitting The Red Lion, St George on Sunday 9 April at a gig presented by local promotors Never Fall Into Silence.

The four band lineup is headlined by sludge/grunge/doom band Civilised Worm, supported by fuzz grunge punkers Forever in Debt, minimal drone mongers Children and of course Kiss Me, Killer.

It’s a free entry/donations show.

If you want to save a little on postage, come buy one of our new tshirts at the show, which we believe will be ready for purchase. There’ll also been limited supplies of DIY patches, pin badges and stickers.